The Project Vaara Wudiu employs innovation to tackle the scarcity of animal feed during the dry periods where fresh palatable feed is absent and animals usually wander around in starvation. Over the years, the team has noticed this trend of fat healthy animals in rainy season and lean animals in the dry season. We have constantly noticed bush burning around the communities in the municipality. Thousands of hectares of grassland can be seen throughout the upper east region of Ghana. The Kassena-Nankana municipality is in the upper east region.This is when the grasses are left in the mercy of the hash fires.
In 2001, the livestock development appraisal report recorded a total of 1.3 million cattle in Ghana. However, the Ghana Livestock Development Policy and Strategy recorded 1.6 million cattle 15 years down the line. This undesirably slow growth of livestock has caused a deficit in the animal protein source given factors which include poor animal feed resource and has also put the livelihoods of farmers on shaking grounds thus dwindling their finances day after day.
Also, the Australian national university in 2009 reported that, 30 tonnes of co2 are emitted per hectare of bush fire which causes great danger to soil organisms, wild life and the ozone layer
Vaara Wudiu with its capacity, for the people, is geared towards solving the issue of feed scarcity for livestock, improve and supplement these ruminants with the required nutrients for their continuous growth even when feed is scarce due to harsh weathers and bush fires.
As for the planet, Vaara Wudiu prevents the possible emission of over 1.2 million tonnes of co2 that destroys the ozone layer even more in these areas just with the presence of high volumes of co2 in the atmosphere. Adding to it, the reduction, if not prevention of bush fires goes a long way to preserving our soil organisms and further prevent the extinction of some of these organisms that are peculiar to our regions.
Creatively and innovatively transforming these dry untapped grasses into an animal feed mixed with dried groundnut plant, vegetables, sodium chloride and orange peels, we solve the problem of feed scarcity in the dry season. (z)-3-hexenal, a compound which makes fresh plant palatable for animals to feed on was extracted from tomatoes and vigorously mixed with our feed. This makes the livestock feed voraciously on Vaara Wudiu.
Since dry grasses in the dry seasons are not left to be burnt by individuals we have indirectly curbed a great societal canker of bush burning.
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